Apparel-corset.



D. KOPS.

APPAREL CORSET. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 11, 1911.

1,020,764. Patented Mar; 19, 1912.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

D. KOPS.

APPAREL CORSET.

APPLICATION FILED 111m. 11, 1911.

Patented Mar. 19, 1912.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

DANIEL KOPS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

APPAREL-CORSET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 11, 1911.

Patented Mar. 19, 1912.

Serial No. 643,480.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL Kors, a citizen of the United States, residing at the borough of Manhattan, in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Apparel-Corsets, of which the following is a specification.

In devices disclosed in Letters Patent heretofore granted to me I have employed various modifications of my inclined tapering strap and also equally various modifications of my inclined tapering strap with prolongations to the lower edge of the skirt extension portion of the corset. These devices have been employed in various combinations of other parts to produce abdominal, figure building and figure-reducing results. Some of these arrangements are shown in my Letters Patent No. 914,732 and No. 928,669. I have also employed elastic webbing sections in the sides and front of my improved corsets for the application of reducing and supporting functions and flattening effects.

WVith many women of stout figure there is required a supporting and flattening effect of the abdomen and a confining and reshaping effect of the upper part of the thigh. These effects are particularly desirable and advantageous in a standing position and a release of tension and free dom for the flesh in a sitting posture and at the same time the provision in a corset of the parts assuming their designated positions and performing their functions at once with a change of posit-ion.

In carrying out my invention and in combination with my inclined tapering strap and prolongation and the usual skirt or extension below the stiff boning of the corset proper, I separate the skirt at the front at the side of the front steels from the lower edge almost up to the boning so as to produce a fabric end or front prolongation below each front steel and an adjacent end of the skirt.

The skirt or prolongation of each inclined tapering strap inclines to the meeting edge of the corset at the front and lower end of said front prolongation. The separated edges of the skirt merge into a rounded upper edge below the boning, and I employ a strip or member of elastic webbing, at one end sewed to the fabric at the inner edge of and below the front steel and at the other end to the edge of a fabric strip or strengthened part of the skirt and the said elastic webbing extends across the up per end of the division of the skirt and it yields under pressure of the fleshy parts of the abdomen that apply tension. The effect of the combined functions of the said elastic webbing, the tapering skirt and strap and the strip at the front and the skirt around the thigh, being a massaging pressure of the fleshy abdomen and thigh particularly in walking and moving about, whereby the abdomen is supported with a flattening effect and the thigh is confined, reduced and remolded under such tension and that of a hose supporter. This hose supporter is common to the three correlated parts of the skirt, strap and strip depending from the steel, which parts are connected thereto; and these latter parts are separated although connected adjacent to their lower ends, and they separate freely in a sitting posture to provide for and accommodate the natural arrangement of abdominal flesh.

In the drawing Figure 1 is an elevation at the lower front portion of a corset showing the features of my improvement and with part of one of the inclined tapering straps and the skirt thereof broken away so as to show clearly the parts underneath. Fig. 2 is an edgewise elevation at the lower portion of the left hand corset part shown in Fig. 1 and showing as separate end spaced from one another the several connected parts herein referred to, and Fig. 3 is an elevation of the inner surface of one of the corset parts.

a and Z) represent the respective halves of the corset at the lower front portion.

0 and (Z are the skirts or skirt extensions of the corset, which as usual, extend below or to a lower plane than the boning e. The boning is shown in Fig. 3, but for clearness has been omitted from Fig. 1. Corsets of usual construction, without skirts or skirt extensions, terminate slightly below the line of this boning,-hence the skirts or skirt extensions 0 (Z form a very appreciable portion of the corset.

f represents the inclined tapering straps and f the extension or prolongation of the same hereinbefore and herein referred to and which I have employed in prior corset constructions. These latter parts are connected to the corset and upper part of the skirt thereof by lines of sewing f along vertical edges distant from the steels 2 3, and at the free ends these straps are provided with eyelets which are adapted to engage posts fastened in the steels at their lower ends.

a 6 represent the fabric prolongations below the front steels 2 3 which nominally are portions below the skirt of the corset and which skirt is divided as shown by the dotted lines 5 at the left hand side of Fig. 1 and by the full lines 4 at the right hand side of Fig. 1. The edges of these divided parts extend upward from the lower edges of the part a 72 with a curved upper edge almost to the line of boning, which will be appreciated from Fig. 3, and then returned downward and forward to the lower edge of the skirts 0 (Z and to a position which by preference slightly overlaps the lower end of a and 72 These forward ends of the skirts are represented at 0 (Z I employ hose supporters 9 and short lengths of webbing 6, 7 and 8. These short lengths of webbing are connected respectively to the lower ends of the fabric extensions a 6 to the lower ends f of the inclined tapering strap prolongations and to the lower forward ends 0 (Z of the corset skirts, and these in turn are connected together and to the upper end of the hose supporters 9, and it may be desirable to extend the hose supporters 9 to the lower ends f of the extensions of the inclined tapering straps and to employ web lengths to the parts 0 (Z and a b which are connected together and to the aforesaid hose supporters, but it is entirely immaterial as said constructions are the equivalent of one another and operate identically the same.

I employ, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 3, elastic webbing strips 6 e at one end sewed to the fabric parts a 6 adjacent to and below the inner edge of the front steels and the opposite ends of these elastic webbing strips are sewed to a fabric strip of the skirt of the corset, or the strengthened edge of the skirt, ,and said strips of elastic webbing extend across the divided part of the skirt at its upper end, and because of these divided parts of the skirt at the front, these strips of elastic webbing are adapted to yield under pressure of fleshy parts of the trunk of the body, both in a standing and in a sitting posture, and of course as they yield and stretch,-the divided part of the skirt tends to spread, but the tension applied to the hose supporters, to the prolongations a b the prolongations of the tapering straps f and the forward ends 0 d of the skirts 0 d has the tendency, as against the yielding of the elastic strips 6 6 to bring all of said parts into line and overcome the tendency of the divided part of the skirt to spread and open; consequently there is both the yielding action and the tension of the elastic strips and the flattening action of the parts that are connected together and to the hose supporters to hold in any fleshy protuberance and produce a Hat front effect by this improved form of corset. This is particularly the case in a standing position. Of course in a sitting posture, the tension on the hose supporters is released, while the tension on the elastic strips 6 g is still in evidence, but it will be quite apparent that because of the separate relation of the parts a Z2 from the parts f and these parts again from the parts 0 (Z and 0 (l that these parts may separate and do assume a loose relation to one another, in which fleshy parts of the trunk of the body, in a sitting posture, may assume a natural condition and without inconvenience or discomfort to the person.

I claim as my invention:

1. In an apparel corset and in each half thereof at the front, three depending fabric members extending to the lower edge of the corset and separated from one another, and one of which overlies a division between the other two, and said members united by a common connection at their lower ends and adapted for abdominal support.

2. In an apparel corset and in each half thereof, a skirt extending over the thigh and across the front and having an incision extending through and from the lower edge at the front up almost to the boning of the corset, forming a skirt division, and a fabric part depending from the-corset at the front and overlying said skirt division and the lower free ends of said parts united by a common connection, whereby a spreading or yielding action and abdominal support is provided.

3. In an apparel corset and in each half thereof having a skirt divided at the front and from the lower edge up almost to the boning of the corset so as to produce in the skirt a part extending down below the front steels, and a part of the skirt extending forward to meet the same, an inclined strap and a prolongation thereof at the front of the corset overlapping the corset skirt divisions, and a hose supporter below the lower front portion of the corset, and branching strips or parts connecting the same at their upper ends with the separate parts aforesaid at the front of the corset for the purpose of applying simultaneous tenslon.

4. In an apparel corset and in each half thereof having a skirt divided at the front and from the lower edge up almost to the boning of the corset so as to produce in the skirt a part extending down below the front steels and a part of the skirt extending forward to meet the same, an inclined strap at the front of the corset overlapping the skirt divisions, an elastic strip extending across and at the front of the corset for the purthe dlvlded upper portion of the skirt and pose of applying slmultaneous tension.

secured at the respective ends, a hose sup- Signed by me this 28th day of July, 1911. porter below the lower front portion of the DANIEL KOPS. 5 corset, and branching strips or parts con- \Vitnesses:

necting the same at the upper end with the ARTHUR H. SERRELL, separate parts aforesaid at their lower ends E. ZAGIIARIASEN.

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